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Shanghai Film Festival Jury Weighs in on Unique Process of Moviemaking: ‘Each Film Is a Rejection of the Previous One’


On the opening day of the Shanghai film festival the international jury weighed in on the unique process of moviemaking, scripts and performance.

A packed audience lobbed familiar questions about the criteria they jurors would employ to decide the Golden Goblet prize winners, and what informs those views. As an actor, I must accumulate and absorb the experiences of daily life, be able to see things through other people’s eyes, and store these as references for creating roles in the future. Zhou, who volunteered to be a Shanghai city guide to the other members of the jury, said she “looked forward to the shocks and surprise that the nominated movies may offer.”

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